Blogger: Changing Your Blog's Templates

So you've started out and you have a blog with some good content and some cool tools, but it looks like every other blog on blogger. You don't want to have to create your own appearance, but there has to be something a little less generic.

There is.

Blogger has a number of pre-configured templates you can use to fit the theme of your work and give it a little personalization, and you can modify them at anytime.

To change your template, go to your blog and log in, then click the Customize link at the top of the page. Your dashboard for that blog appears, set to the Layout tab. In the Layout tab, click Pick New Template. A page appears that allows you to change the appearance of your blog.

In general, all the templates have a similar look with a header, an area for your posts, and a sidebar for all the cool gadgets you picked.

To see what your blog looks like in that template, click Preview template under that template's display and options. To apply a template to your blog, click Save Template.

In future installments, we'll take a look at how to post entries in your blog.